Overview
- India’s Election Commission declared Vallala Naveen Yadav the winner with 98,988 votes to Maganti Sunitha’s 74,259 after 10 rounds of counting at the Kotla Vijayabhaskar Reddy Stadium.
- The bypoll saw low participation, with 48.49% turnout as 1,94,631 of 4,01,365 registered voters cast ballots in the high-profile Hyderabad constituency.
- AIMIM did not field a candidate and backed the Congress nominee, a move widely seen as consolidating a large Muslim vote in the seat.
- The result lifts the Congress tally to 66 in the 119-member Telangana Assembly and is viewed as strengthening the party’s position in Hyderabad before GHMC and other local-body contests.
- BJP’s Lankala Deepak Reddy finished a distant third with 17,061 votes and forfeited his deposit, while BRS lost a seat it had held under the late Maganti Gopinath despite fielding his widow, Sunitha.